Bullies exist in all segments of our society and the common denominator is that bullies are just plain mean spirited and use fear, intimidation, and coercion to get what they want. Bullies that have a leadership role in an organization will attempt to use their leadership position and resulting power to drive their employees to produce regardless of how the results are obtained. Bullies start at an early age in our neighborhoods and schools where they can use their…..

I’ve been asked why I wrote Leadership DNA and then Leadership DNA Book Two. Excellent question. My primary motives for writing these two books was that I wanted to get people thinking about leadership, the huge impact both good and poor leaders have on our nation, and why we spend billions on leadership training every year and yet on-going surveys of workers and American citizens indicate that the leadership quality of the people receiving this training nave not improved and have actually…..

I spent nearly 40 years in leadership positions with time spent as an Army officer and in leadership positions in the Federal Government- Departments of Transportation, Department of Interior,Department of Army, and the Department of Defense. Within the Defense Department, I was a director of a human resource office comprised of 105 employees. These assignments gave me a tremendous amount of exposure to the leadership and management styles of numerous military and civilian supervisors as we worked together to deal…..

As a former cadet army officer in the Reserve Officer Training Corps, the training I received was designed to push me and my fellow cadets to the limit of our endurance, and it did. Carrying a heavy backpack and rifle for miles in forced-march conditions with summertime heat and humidity drained the energy out of us. And when we thought we couldn’t go another step, the drill instructors acted like we were just out on a Sunday stroll and, with…..

Hello Readers, I thought I would share some insights from my book by providing you a look at the introduction. This gives you a great overview of what you will find inside as well as provide an idea of the types of things I will discuss here. In my book Leadership DNA: Why the Accepted Premise That Anyone Can Be a Leader Is Utterly False and the Main Cause of Poor Leadership in America, I stated that the predominant view…..